WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Pope Leo X began offering indulgences to anybody who donated certain amounts of money to the Church. In essence, the more money a person donated, the more sins they had forgiven.

Detailed explanation-2: -One particularly well-known Catholic method of exploitation in the Middle Ages was the practice of selling indulgences, a monetary payment of penalty which, supposedly, absolved one of past sins and/or released one from purgatory after death.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although these concerns were surfacing as early as the 13th century, it was only in 1476 that Pope Sixtus IV declared that one could indeed gain an indulgence for someone in purgatory.